[LLVMdev] advice on default options for building LLVM-GCC on Ubuntu Linux

[Mike Stump]

On Apr 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Duncan Sands wrote:
> you need to use a separate objects directory and not build directly
> in the llvm-gcc tree.  For some reason the Apple people placed a file
> GNUmakefile in the tree which "make" chooses in preference to the  
> Makefile
> produced by configuring.  Personally I would like to see GNUmakefile
> deleted.

My take, you can test an environment variable called RC_RELEASE in the  
GNUmakefile and use it, if set, and if it isn't set, include Makefile  
and use it in preference.  Oh course, this is untested, someone would  
have to test it in all three environments.